Timber. Hence LUMBER-MAN, YARD, &c.
1786. Lumber-yard, at the head of Baltimore Bason. The subscribers have just received a large quantity of the different kinds of lumber, &c.—Maryland Journal, April 4.
1792. Husbandry; which, after all, is much preferable to the lumber business, both in point of gain, contentment and morals.—Jeremy Belknap, ‘New Hampshire,’ iii. 211.
1806. Near 32 millions feet of lumber were exported from the flourishing town of Portland [Maine] last year.—Mass. Spy, Jan. 29.
a. 1817. The lumbermen were without employment: and, as they were accustomed to no other business, their families saw nothing but ruin before them.—T. Dwight, ‘Travels,’ ii. 166 (1821). (N.E.D.)
a. 1817. Those who are mere lumbermen [in Maine] are almost necessarily poor. Their course of life seduces them to prodigality, profaneness, thoughtlessness of future wants, profaneness, irreligion, immoderate drinking, and other ruinous habits.—Id., ii. 236.
1846. By this device, the provincial lumberman has an advantage over a Maine lumberman.—Mr. Fairfield of Maine, U.S. Senate, Jan. 27: Cong. Globe, p. 252.
1850. I had the misfortune to live in this town four years, my father having a lumber-bush there, and when I emerged from thence into the world, I was minus of toe-nails, these having been grubbed off among the rocks…. Beside the lumber-bush, my father cultivated a little farm, and there I learned to scatter oats (not wild), peas, beans and barley, and to raise ‘pigs and chickens.’—Knick. Mag., xxxv. 22, 23 (Jan.).
